Efficient Assessment of Social Hotspots in the Supply Chains of 100 Product Categories Using the Social Hotspots Database

Norris, Catherine Benoît; Norris, Gregory A.; Aulisio, Deana

doi:10.3390/su6106973

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“…The main reasons for this late integration are certainly the challenging particularities of social issues in comparison to environmental issues. These include the different political, ethical and ideological views of stakeholders (Baumann et al 2013), the cultural and economic disparities between countries (Benoît Norris, Norris, and Aulisio 2014), the difficult treatment with K.O. criteria such as child and forced labour and finally, the consideration of negative social impacts on the local society due to a supplier's non-selection (Jørgensen 2013).…”

Section: Reasons For the Rare Use Of Social Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable supplier management – a review of models supporting sustainable supplier selection, monitoring and development

Zimmer

Fröhling

Schultmann

2015

International Journal of Production Research

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In the last two decades, pressure from various stakeholders has forced many companies to establish environmental and social improvements both in their company and their supply chains. The growing number of journal publications and conference proceedings confirms this change also in academia. The aim of this paper is to analyse and review scientific literature on sustainable supplier management (SSM) with a focus on formal models supporting decision-making in sustainable supplier selection, monitoring and development. For this purpose, a framework on SSM is proposed and a comprehensive content analysis including a criteria analysis is carried out. Beyond this, in total 143 peer-reviewed publications between 1997 and 2014 have been analysed to identify both established and overlooked research fields. Major findings are the rapidly growing interest of this topic in academia in recent years, the predominance of Analytic Hierarchy Process, Analytic Network Process and fuzzy-based approaches, the focus on the final evaluation and selection process step and the rare investigation of social and quantitative metrics. This review may be useful for practitioners and scientists as it outlines major characteristics in this field, which can serve as a basis for further research.

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Section: Reasons For the Rare Use Of Social Criteriamentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable supplier management – a review of models supporting sustainable supplier selection, monitoring and development

Zimmer

Fröhling

Schultmann

2015

International Journal of Production Research

365

269

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“…This risk-assessed indicator can be considered as type I approach defined in SLCA guidelines [24]. The type I approach is "often summed up as performance reference point scale analysis" [26] where former social LCA studies such as [27][28][29] took this approach. Although the type I methods are not quantifying the impacts based on causal links, the method allows assessing the impact that can potentially take place along the product life cycle based on the required worker hours, the activity variables, to produce the assessed product.…”

Section: Social Life Cycle Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trade-Off between the Social and Environmental Performance of Green Concrete: The Case of 6 Countries

2018

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Improving the sustainability performance of construction industry is driven by two forces: regulatory push (policy initiatives), and market pull where improving a corporate sustainability performance can be financially beneficial for enterprises. Through the investigation of the sustainability hotspots and impacts, concerning social and environmental, of the steel slag mixed concrete (green concrete) the study assessed the factors relevant for its performance and examined how to improve them. Hotspot analysis and impact assessments were conducted by social and environmental life cycle assessment (LCA). The assessed green concrete represented not just the variety of geographic representation but also the product designs (three different slag contents) and the potential difference occurring from the corporate efforts, where four classes were introduced. The investigation of the social and environmental hotspots of the green concrete revealed a difference in the relation between the sustainability performance and steel slags. While the increased slag content resulted in worse social performance, the increase improved the environmental performance in all six investigated case countries. This trade-off between the social and environmental performance implied the limits of the sustainable product design and suggested the effectiveness of the supply chain management for improving the two sustainability performances for the green concrete.

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“…Based on the SLCA guidelines, the social hotspots database (SHDB) and PSILCA were developed as comprehensive databases for evaluating the social impacts of products throughout their life cycles [17,18]. To provide insights into the global supply chain related to a product's life cycle, SHDB and PSILCA are commonly used as global input-output (IO) databases that are linked to information on all countries of the world's economy.…”

Section: Assessing Potential Social Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the methodologies used to analyze SHDB and PSILCA are similar, the social indicators and the evaluation criteria for assessing potential social impacts differ slightly. For the SHDB developed by New Earth, 22 social theme tables by country and economic sector, along with 134 social indicators have been established for determining potential social impacts based on over 200 reputable sources of statistical (e.g., the World Health Organization and International Labor Organization) [17]. Potential social impacts can be graded on a five-tier scale: undefined risk level (URL), low risk (LR), medium risk (MR), high risk (HR), and very high risk (VHR).…”

Section: Assessing Potential Social Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Progress towards Sustainable Production: Environmental, Economic, and Social Assessments of the Cellulose Nanofiber Production Process

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Abstract:We assessed the environmental, economic, and social impacts of the process for producing cellulose nanofibers (CNFs), which are considered to be a valuable sustainable woody biomass feedstock. The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with CNF production are greater than the emissions associated with producing most plastic materials used in vehicle components because the grinding process during CNF production generates significant GHG emissions. The cost of CNF production is also higher than the cost of producing comparable plastics for automotive use because of the high cost of the pulverization process. The sensitivity analysis in this study suggested that GHG emissions and manufacturing costs could be reduced by 19.1-76.4% and 3.6-12.2%, respectively, by improving the energy efficiency of CNF production by two to five times. We compared the potential social risks associated with CNF production between Japan and Vietnam using a product social impact life cycle assessment database. It is desirable to reduce the social risk on the fair salary and child labor, and to improve the safe and healthy living conditions in the local communities that import wood chips harvested in Vietnam.

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Efficient Assessment of Social Hotspots in the Supply Chains of 100 Product Categories Using the Social Hotspots Database

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Cited by 76 publications

References 12 publications

Sustainable supplier management – a review of models supporting sustainable supplier selection, monitoring and development

Sustainable supplier management – a review of models supporting sustainable supplier selection, monitoring and development

Trade-Off between the Social and Environmental Performance of Green Concrete: The Case of 6 Countries

Progress towards Sustainable Production: Environmental, Economic, and Social Assessments of the Cellulose Nanofiber Production Process

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